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Sun Outage Prediction
Sun outages are natural phenomenon that occurs when a satellite and a receiving earth station come directly in line with the sun. The sun’s energy interferes with the satellite’s signal and affects the signals received by the earth station. The affected signals may lead to poor or no reception of channels relying on the affected satellites.
StarHub TV receives most of our channels via satellite before broadcasting them to homes. Satellite transmission is subject to these environmental factors which are beyond the control of the broadcaster.
Sun outages occur when a satellite and a receiving earth station comes directly in line with the sun. Such a phenomenon will typically occur twice a year for each satellite. As our channels are received from different satellite sources, different channels may be affected at different times of the year.
Not all satellites will be affected. Only satellites that orbit between the sun and our receiving earth station will be affected. Hence, only channels transmitted by these affected satellites will experience transmission interference.
The affected channels and period are as follows:
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
CinemaWorld HD | 18-Mar-2020 | 10:32 | 10:34 | 10:35 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 10:31 | 10:33 | 10:36 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 10:31 | 10:33 | 10:35 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 10:32 | 10:33 | 10:34 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
Animax HD | 18-Mar-2020 | 15:19 | 15:20 | 15:22 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 15:17 | 15:20 | 15:22 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 15:17 | 15:20 | 15:22 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 15:19 | 15:19 | 15:20 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
FOX Action Movies HD | 18-Mar-2020 | 13:27 | 13:28 | 13:30 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 13:26 | 13:28 | 13:31 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 13:25 | 13:28 | 13:30 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 13:27 | 13:27 | 13:28 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
Asianet | 18-Mar-2020 | 13:03 | 13:05 | 13:08 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 13:01 | 13:05 | 13:09 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 13:00 | 13:05 | 13:09 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 13:00 | 13:04 | 13:09 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 13:00 | 13:04 | 13:08 | |
| 23-Mar-2020 | 13:02 | 13:04 | 13:05 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
CTI TV HD | 18-Mar-2020 | 11:46 | 11:46 | 11:49 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 11:44 | 11:44 | 11:49 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 11:44 | 11:44 | 11:49 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 11:45 | 11:45 | 11:47 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
CCTV-4 HD | 17-Mar-2020 | 11:31 | 11:34 | 11:36 |
| 18-Mar-2020 | 11:30 | 11:33 | 11:37 | |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 11:29 | 11:33 | 11:37 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 11:29 | 11:33 | 11:37 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 11:29 | 11:33 | 11:36 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 11:30 | 11:32 | 11:34 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
CCTV-4 | 17-Mar-2020 | 12:16 | 12:18 | 12:20 |
| 18-Mar-2020 | 12:14 | 12:18 | 12:21 | |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 12:13 | 12:17 | 12:22 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 12:13 | 12:17 | 12:21 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 12:13 | 12:17 | 12:20 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 12:15 | 12:16 | 12:18 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
NDTV 24x7 | 17-Mar-2020 | 16:06 | 16:08 | 16:11 |
| 18-Mar-2020 | 16:04 | 16:08 | 16:12 | |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 16:03 | 16:08 | 16:12 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 16:03 | 16:08 | 16:12 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 16:04 | 16:07 | 16:11 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 16:06 | 16:07 | 16:08 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
ANC | 18-Mar-2020 | 8:30 | 8:31 | 8:33 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 8:28 | 8:31 | 8:34 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 8:28 | 8:31 | 8:34 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 8:29 | 8:31 | 8:33 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
ABC Australia | 18-Mar-2020 | 15:55 | 15:57 | 15:58 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 15:54 | 15:56 | 15:59 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 15:54 | 15:56 | 15:58 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 15:56 | 15:56 | 15:56 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
Astro Warna | 18-Mar-2020 | 14:09 | 14:11 | 14:12 |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 14:08 | 14:11 | 14:13 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 14:08 | 14:10 | 14:13 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 14:09 | 14:10 | 14:10 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
TVRI | 17-Mar-2020 | 12:27 | 12:30 | 12:32 |
| 18-Mar-2020 | 12:26 | 12:29 | 12:33 | |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 12:25 | 12:29 | 12:33 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 12:25 | 12:29 | 12:33 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 12:25 | 12:28 | 12:32 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 12:26 | 12:28 | 12:30 |
| Channels | Date | Start time | Peak | End |
TVBS Asia | 17-Mar-2020 | 14:25 | 14:27 | 14:30 |
| 18-Mar-2020 | 14:23 | 14:27 | 14:31 | |
| 19-Mar-2020 | 14:22 | 14:27 | 14:31 | |
| 20-Mar-2020 | 14:22 | 14:26 | 14:31 | |
| 21-Mar-2020 | 14:23 | 14:26 | 14:30 | |
| 22-Mar-2020 | 14:24 | 14:26 | 14:27 |
